Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-23
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Tennessee Girl is Dead Twenty Five
Minutes.
Fayetteville ,Tcnn. Observer.

A tennessee Gill Is DoN0 twenty rive /.
Minutes.
Fayetteville Tenn. Observer.
There is one young Iady, Miss Deus
Street, CT Giles county, who Claims TO
have "spread her white wings and SEIZED
over the ses' 10 the celestial CITY last
March. TIE fact has not until the pres
ent time been in print, and would prCbs-
bly, never ksye been published had she
remained in inst lethaTgiC country. There
have been s. d ferent times persons who
have made similar claims, but the public,
instead OF listening 10 them with credu-
lily, locked upon the claimants rather
with cOmmiseTa.iOD, and regarded the
iervid accounts Of vast they saW - tlc
imsginiugs OF e diseased mind, or per
ChaGCe the product OF q disOTdCrGd liver.
Miss Street is WHIST is known as
Country girl" and has not epiJ7ed the
educational facilities Cf large cities, bu.
she il lively and yiyaCiOu- and in point Of
intelligence is the equal of those raised
under the same circumstance, but j. is
not reasonable to think person Of suCl
limited sdvantsges could Unss5isted de
scribe anything "a Gs slowing language
as sue does. Il can not be said inst she
js more o5seryant than ner associates
and displays wisdom begOtten Of wears
Of experience, for sha is
Standing with rt,dcta-t feet
Who're the hrOOE and river meet
WOmanHOOd aud gi.lh0Od fleet
Her description OF the Heavenly Jeru-
salem, which Is vivid, is reduced 70 writ
ing, and is offered in girds1 t.tl tcace
and youthful innocence. 1t is clothed III
the most elegant end Chasye language,
and describes & country more glorious
than any upon which tie feet IF fancy
have ever (rOd, aGd Desr5 the imprint q
2 superior mimi. Tlcrc are condolences
connected with this case tina, Chal,eTge
attention and slow thtr VAS q power
greater than the finite involved.
/ About February / Of the current ye5r
/ Miss Street informed her parents tlst OF
/ March - following, a. 4 O'cIOC5 in the
afternoon, she would be taken Violently
/ i'll; tnat she would grow worse until the
/ following day e. O'Clock p. IN, st which
time she would die and remain Ia 3 state
of death for twenty five minutes, sudthzt
during the period Of suspended snlms-
ton she would visit that "n0use lotIaaGa
with hands, eternal in the heavens" S1g
asked her father not TO send for doctors,
as human fundamentally could not PIE
vent her journey to paradise, sEd else
told him not to be alarmed, declsriga
with implicit confidence that after eudur-
ing the sting OF deAthf0r twenty-five min
utes her mortal and immortal natures
would reuuite, and she would again be
come 2 living soul,
OF course the parents were UuCasI
about the idol OF their hreside AMI began
to think Inst her reason was a5jjcSuu.
lis throne. Ga the arrival Of the Day 81
which she announced she would be tEEeI
i'll they eyincad great 0iictude, iuGGir
ing hourly as to her condition. Slu sl
sWered Cheerily and continued TO sdm0u
ISL them not To be alarmet. The hand
of the clock tCiled ground until four va
finally reached, and TO the girls parents
they never seemed to move so rapidly
While the time-pIeCe was upon the strokt
Of the hour, the young lady Was pros
: trated with sickness, and violent pain
raCked her body. Despite her entre.Lie
the father sent for skilled physicians, WIN
vain!y administered their most pCteE
remedies, and g. y O'Clock on the PSI
they pronounced lie extinct Tae sick
,, ness and deGsh occurred as she had pre-
! dicted, and IN time so did tie rCsuscits
ton The f6thCr remembered ne Geclars
ton that she would return TO lie, On,
looked a. thu clock, end 10 the pendulum
i, had ceased TO yibraCe, and the Old time
piece that had fJr years faithful
tOHed eff the hours LAD stopped whil
upon the stroke Cf niEc. Wien tl
Girl returned 10 consciousness the ClOC
started Of IT'S Owu acc ord, finished st-iE
ing the hour, and hiss run stree WjthOu
interruption. 81 ref renee 10 the W-tC
: Of one Of the doctors il 8ss found tn1
she had been inseIsi5le-shsll We So
/ deGd?-foI twenty-five minutes.
After the It urn Is Suims5iou he
!; tongue was psTsliZsd, G-a sle Indicate
I" by signs that writing Hsteria, was wan
. ed, which Wss provide, sLd she wrJ,
y letters WDica - saws were dictated 3
9 Christ, and the description previously r,
;. ferred to. The whole covers rigeJee
= pages Of f1oIscsp paper. She says she
commissioned 10 read hcr mGuusCTiI
: wherever she goes.
While in the home OF the oiCst she WIS
L asked by q woman to write, after return
: ing to earth, TO ner great-grauddaugl
Y Mrs. Annie B. Shelton of Kin.er1isl
= Sumter county, A.a5ame, and tell hf
how aDXi0usiy hcr great-graudt&u
awaited her coming. Oar informant
not positive IS ~ the correctness
these names, but thinks that Of the oil
lady was Mrs. Annie Belmont, who sal
/ she nan been dead ninety five years.
writing TO the address the girl gave II ":
, learned inst woman Of that name hs
1 died II that place in l772, and that 81
- hsd great-grand- daughter resident Their
, Miss Street says she Will be told in 81
!, the date of her death.
u The statements as given shove are esta
= lished by unimpeachabIe witnesses. Y
u attempt no Explanation, bu. simply gi'
u the fscts, and 81 doubling Th0m2ses WI
= want to aye left free TO cavl.
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